Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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